‘Robert Bathos Staving Son’ [pseud.]. (1886
or 1887). The Stranger Case of Dr Hide and Mr Crushall: A Rum-Antic Story.
By Robert Bathos Staving Son. London: Bevington & Co [This is from
the entry in the British Library catalogue; G has ‘…Starving Son.
London: Benington’] [‘mad
scientist’ development that dominates many subsequent retellings; Dr. Hide
creates then loses a pair of ‘electric pants’ that by accident get united to
the dummy of ‘a black man’ (‘Mr Crushall’); the trousers walk about London,
kicking and trampling; G B.2; repr. Geduld 137-152]

Little, Francis H. (1890). The Untold
Sequel of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Boston: Pinckney
Publishing Company [This
is the catalogue entry for the copy in the Beinecke Library, Yale University;
Geduld lists it as B.6 (p. 198) by Anon. and published ‘Dover, N.H.: The John
A. White Company’—this is a reprinting published as an advertisement by John
A. White, manufacturers of woodworking machinery; repr. in Geduld 129-136;
‘Linus Utterson’ tells of his discoveries after the end of Stevenson’s book:
Hyde is an American actor opium addict who kills Dr Jekyll and takes his
place by impersonating him, ‘closes the frame narrative left open by
Stevenson and, in doing so, closes all interpretative possibilities’ (Miller
p. 27)]

1892

Patten, Gilbert (1892). Double-Voiced Dan,
the Always-on-Deck Detective, or, the Female Jekyll and Hyde: A Weird Mystery
of the Great Metropolis. New York: Beadle & Adams (Beadle’s New York
Dime Library).[Not clear if ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ is just a label, or
if the story is a close version of Stevenson’s narrative; Miller 46]

1894

Bridges, Robert (1894). [‘Jekyll Meets Hyde’,
Geduld’s title]. From Overheard in Arcady. London: Dent. [not
listed in G’s Appendix B or C but repr. pp. 155-6; not Bridges the friend of
Gerard Manley Hopkins, but an American journalist and poet, who first wrote
these literary dialogues for Life magazine. A dialogue between the characters
Jekyll and Hyde and about the author’s attitude, good and evil etc.]

Green, Paul (1946). ‘Doctor Hyde’. Salvation
on a String and Other Tales of the South. New York/London: Harper &
Bros. [G
C.2]

1949

Armstrong, Anthony [Anthony Armstrong Willis
(1897-1976)] (1949). ‘The Case of Mr. Pelham’. Esquire. Also Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine 139 (June 1955). Also (1957). The Strange
Case of Mr Pelham. London/New York: Methuen/Doubleday. [basis
for a Hitchock TV film ‘The Case of Mr Pelham’ (1955), and the film The
Man Who Haunted Himself (GB, Basil Dearden, 1970).Although this is more in the
line of the disturbing usurping double as in Dostoievsky, Amstrong’s short
story is influenced by Stevenson not only in the new 1957 title but in the
protagonist reminiscent of Utterson and Jekyll: a methodical businessman who
lives alone with his butler.]

Berger, Thomas (1971). ‘Professor Hyde’. The
Fully Automated Love Life of Henry Keanridge and 12 other Stories.
Chicago: Playboy Press [G
C.5; ‘In a modern transformation story set in the United States, college
professor Henry Hyde transforms into the garbage man Scallopini in order to
escape his own family and seduce the wife of a colleague. The story ends when
Henry’s son, Leonard, is transformed and approaches his father in murderous
rage’, Miller pp. 53-4 ]

[Set in 1908,Jekyll’s son, only a minor character, is
one suspect in a series of murders. Dark Shadows (1966), by Marilyn
Ross (one of over twenty-pseudonyms used by Canadian author Dan Ross) is the
first of a series of 33 Gothic novels, many of them featuring a vampire,
Barnabas Collins.]

[‘A story set in contemporary new York City and
suburbs, which reinstates Stevenson’s lack of definition and limitation,
leaving the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde unexplained, psychically
connecting Jekyll, Hyde and Utterson, and describing the crimes that Hyde
urges Jekyll to commit as merely “violence” ’ (Miller 55).

‘ “Doctor Jekyll,” a brilliant retelling of theRobert Louis Stevenson novella, is setmostly in contemporary New York and theHamptons. Sontag loved Stevenson and does radical
justice to his story by casting Jekyll and Hyde as separate individuals, the
better to identify them, later on, as aspects of the same person. We first
encounter them together in Manhattan. Hyde has arranged a meeting at the North
Tower of the World Trade Center on a windswept Sunday in July. He chooses the
WTC because it is “out of everyone’s way.” In this weekend wilderness, the
two cross only for a few seconds: Hyde is unaccountably anxious and doesn’t
want to talk. Jekyll wanders into a deserted cafe across the street and
watches with interest as his breathless double keeps rounding the corner
every few minutes like a hamster in a cage.

Strictly speaking, this vivid, sinister series
of images has nothing to do with Sontag’s writings on 9/11. Even so, as you
go back over her work you’re startled by the curious afterlife it has
acquired. Thirty years on, it’s as if her Jekyll and Hyde had colonized a
small patch of debris at the edge of Ground Zero and looked on impartially as
the dust thickened and drifted across the world. Sontag liked the Jekyll and
Hyde story because she understood the dangerous liaison between vice and
virtue.’

Feinstein, Albert B. (1975). Dr Jekyll and Mr Mad. New York: Warner Paperback Library [G
B.7; this is a Mad Magazine paperback; Geduld lists with William B.
Gaines (the original publisher of Mad Magazine) as the author.; this
is probably a comic book parody in the typical absurd, lampoon style of the
magazine]

1979

Savater, Fernando (1979). Criaturas de aire. Barcelona: Destino [monologues
of literary characters by this Spanish philosopher; Sherlock Holmes, Peter
Pan, the Invisible Man and IX: ‘Habla Mr Hyde’; a theatrical version of this
(Mr. Hyde en boca del Dr. Jekyll) was performed in Mexico in 1996
written and directed by Luis Eduardo Reyes]

1979

Estleman, Loren D. (1979). Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes. New York: Doubleday [presented
as if by John H. Watson and edited by Loren D. Estleman]

1982

Reouvain, René (1982). Elémentaire, mon cher Holmes. Paris: Denoël
(Sueurs Froides). [Originally
under the pseudonym of "Albert Davidson"; not a retelling of Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde but a narrative in which Stevenson, the writing of Jekyll
and Hyde and the manuscript of the first version of the story are
embedded in a brilliant Sherlock Holmes pastiche. This entry has therefore
also been placed on the ‘RLS in Fiction’ page. The ‘Prologue (1885)’ (14 pp)
tells the story of the writing of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as a fictional
narrative with dialogues; the rest of the novel is an ingenious Holmsian
pastiche of embedded narratives linking together historical characters
(famous murderers, Conan Doyle, Doyle’s secretary, Dr Joseph Bell) by means
of a transmitted text: the terrible first version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,
which we learn was not burnt after all. We also learn that Jack the Ripper
was…]

1983

Geare, Michael & Michael
Corby (1983).Dracula’s
Diary. ***:
Beaufort Books.
[Dracula is 18 years old
when he is sent to England by his Uncle Vlad in the 1870s or 1880s; the events
of his arrival on the Demeter are shifted to several years later;
Bulldog Drummond appears; Popeye the Sailor Man is mentioned; Watson and
Holmes appear; also Dr. Jekyll appears and transforms into Hyde, placing the
story in the mid 1880s.]

Sanford,
John A. (1987). The Strange Trial of Mr. Hyde: A New Look at the Nature of
Human Evil. San Francisco: Harper & Row.[John Sanford is a Jungian analyst and Episcopalian
priest. He addresses the questions of psychological guilt and responsibility
in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde..]

Kessel, John (1989). ‘Mr Hyde Visits the Home
of Dr Jekyll’. Aboriginal SF March/April 1989. Reprinted in Kessel,
John. The Pure Product. New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997. [Poem; ‘…His face is scarred by virtue. / Mine is not. / He dreams of me / And
prays for deliverance. / But that is only envy / Of my peculiar beauty, /
Which he fears / And calls by another name.]

1989

Tennant, Emma (1989). Two Women of London.
The Strange Case of Ms Jekyll and Mrs Hyde. London: Faber and Faber.[‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are transformed into the
figures of Ms Jekyll and Mrs Hyde’ and the setting is transposed to Britain
in the Thatcher period. The educated and spoilt Eliza Jekyll becomes Mrs
Hyde, and the latter, through drugs, transforms to a more desirable self and
into the art-gallery manageress Eliza.Tennant ‘makes her protagonist a very human Hyde, a victim herself
whose deed is an act of self-defence… an act of freeing herself from
oppressive circumstances and threats which surround her as they do all
women’. Responsibility is shifted ‘to society at large and to its male
members in particular.’ The complex narrative pattern is ‘a modern equivalent
of Stevenson’s technique’ (Ganner: 196-7)]

Michele Serra (1989). ‘Jekyll’. In Il nuovo che avanza.
Milano: Feltrinelli. 53-65.[Grotesque tale (reminiscent of those in Dahl’s Kiss
Kiss) in which Stevenson’s social criticism is redirected at the
superficiality of the beautiful, well-manicured existence of a modern
fashionable plastic surgeon who takes a potion to become a modern monster:
fat, ugly and misshaped.]

Martin, Valerie (1990). Mary Reilly.
New York/London: Doubleday/Black Swan. [the narrative centre is moved to a minor character,
a maid only mentioned in passing in Stevenson’s text. The story is also
expanded by the narration of scenes ‘offstage’ in the original
and by ‘adding to Dr Jekyll’s story that of his maidservant’s childhood and
youth as well as her role within the Jekyll household. She becomes a mirror
to Jekyll’s innermost desires… Mary gets drawn into his double life with a
strange mixture of horror and fascination, which in psycho-analytical terms
links up with her childhood experiences as an abused child with an alcoholic
father in a world of poverty’ (Ganner: 195).‘The author’s interest lies in the woman rather than in Dr Jekyll, the
centre of attention for the maid. It is a feminist’s curiosity in the
reactions of the passive young woman to a socially superior and attractive
master in a situation of economic dependency’ (Ganner: 196)]

Newman, Kim (1995). Dracula Cha Cha Cha. London: Pocket Books (aka: Judgment of Tears:
Anno Dracula 1959. New York: Avon Books).[et in 1959, third in the series; includes Jekyll and Hyde, James Bond
etc. etc. (The Second in the series The Bloody Red Baron (1995), set
in 1918, apparently doesn’t include Jekyll and Hyde)]

1995

Knight, Amarantha (1995). The Darker
Passions: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. New York: Masquerade. [your
intrepid site-editor (somebody had to do it...) read enough to understand
that this is sado-masochistic pornographic retelling; the same writer (one
suspects it is a pseudonym) has produced The Darker Passions: Dracula]

Swindells, Robert (1996). Jacqueline Hyde. London: Doubleday UK,
£9.99 (hc). Reissued 1997, London: Corgi Yearling (pb) (ISBN: 0440863295).
[Young teenager thriller/dark fantasy novel, the
Stevenson story transposed into contemporary Britain with the principle
character replaced by a female character.
“When 11-year-old Jacqueline discovers a curious bottle of liquid in her
granny's attic, she develops a dual personality. It's fun at first. Exciting.
But then Jacqueline Bad gets into serious trouble, and although she keeps
trying to be her old self, the bad side just won't let go.”
This will be frightening especially to adult readers trying to understand the
thoughts and behaviour of antisocial brats; it might also appeal thoseinterested in ‘Estuary English’, as it is
a first-person monologue by JH herself (vaguely corresponding to Ch 10 of
Stevenson’s novella). The protagonist has three nightmares: a dream of the
trampling incident (“I knock her over and start trampling her”, Ch 7); a
version of the Carew murder (Ch 16); and a nightmare of being somewhere
inside and searching in a cabinet for a bottle while people outside try to
break in (Ch 26). Then she reads Stevenson’s story (Ch 41; “this doctor’s a
really good guy. Everybody respects him, you know? He’s like a pillar
of society, right?”). Later (Ch 47) there’s the suggestion that her
grandmother’s house had belonged to a doctor on which Stevenson may have
based his story.
‘It seems to be a didactic story, a warning against glue-sniffing and
drug-taking. At the same time it is a gripping first-person account of a
juvenile psychiatric patient. Finally, Swindells adds to all this the girl’s
literary speculations, which are actually a mini-introduction to what fiction
is all about.. What is noteworthy about [the novel], however, is the fact
that the figure of this young girl Hyde is also a complex creation and pushed
beyond the simple moral judgment of good and bad’ (Ganner: 198)]

1997

Greenburg, Dan, Jack E. Davis (Illustrator)
(1997). Dr. Jekyll, Orthodontist (Zack Files). ***: Putnam Publishing
Group (0448413388). Publ. in UK as The Zack Files 5: Dr Jekyll, My Dentist.
London: Macmillan Children’s Books (033035356X). [Dr
Jekyll as brand name for crazy scientist who takes transforming drug:
"There’s something strange about Zack’s new dentist. It could be his
eyes, which go red and scary when he’s cross. It could be the fact that his patient’s
teeth seem to get worse, not better - and what is the strange liquid that he
calls mouthwash?"]

Naugrette, Jean-Pierre (1998). Le crime étrange de Mr Hyde. Paris:
Actes Sud/Babel. ISBN
2-7427-1796-X. [detective
story version, pastiche/homage to Victorian literature by a Stevenson
scholar; organized in 10 chapters like JH, the first nine a first person
narrative (by Hyde addressed to Utterson), the last a third person narrative
(so reversing S’s structure); Hyde alternates between referring to himself in
the first and the third person; the game of allusions and quotations includes
Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle and T.S. Eliot, though undoubtedly there
are many others. Japanese translation in 2003, Tokyo:
Tokyo Sogensha.ISBN4 488 25902 2.]

1998

Nancy Butcher, Alexander Steele, Jane
McCreary (Illustrator) (1998). Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Dog (Adventure of
Wishbone, No 14). New York: Big Red Chair Books (1570643881) [dog
detective called Wishbone. “Joe Talbot's neighbor,
Wanda Gilmore, meets the man of her dreams. But Joe, Ellen Talbot, and
Wishbone are puzzled by the change in Wanda's personality--she's just not
herself. Wanda invites the Talbots to attend her mystery man's
amateur-talent-night show, and everyone is in for a hair-raising surprise!
This intrigue reminds Wishbone of the book Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Wishbone imagines himself as John Utterson,
a lawyer who follows the trail of a strange and evil man who is terrorizing
19th century London. As Utterson unravels this mystery, he will face dark
secrets, witness a frightening scientific experiment gone wrong, and have a
fur-raising encounter with a monster!” See also 1996]

1999

Newman, Kim (1999). ‘Further Developments in the Strange Case of
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. In Maxim Jubowski (ed.) (1999). Chronicles of
Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime.
London: Headline. Reprinted in Kim Newman (2000). Unforgivable Stories.
London: Pocket Books, pp. 11-51.[Utterson and Enfield return to Jekyll’s abandoned
house and find ‘Henry Jekyll’s Further Statement of the Case’ in which all is
explained: his relationship with Hyde (who is a separate person) and the
reason for Lanyon’s resentment and final shocked reaction.]

1999

Stine, R.L. (1999). Jekyll & Heidi. New York: Scholastic (Goosebumps series)
(0439011833) [children’s
version; "As Uncle Jekyll staggered into the house his white hair shot
out wildly from his head as if he had received an electric shock. I didn’t
want him to see me nor know where he’d been. I especially didn’t want to know
what he’d done"]

1999

(6-issue magazine version), 2000 (book-form)
Moore, Alan & Kevin O’Neill (art) (2000). The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen. New York/London: DC Comics/Titan Books. [Comic
book (some superb artwork); the mysterious forces of Fu Manchu threaten the
British Empire - the authorities enlist "heroes" from classic
literature of the time: Captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain, Dr Henry Jekyll and
Edward Hyde, and the Invisible Man. Hyde, a cross between King Kong and the
Incredible Hulk and, at about 12 feet tall, much bigger than Jekyll, usually
transforms in time to save the day. Among the pastiche graphic material in
the back, a "cigarette card" of Hyde trampling the girl, but little
else closely connected to Stevenson’s text. ]

Lefort, Luc (adapt. de); Ludovic Debeurme(ill.) (2001). L'Etrange
cas du Dr Jekyll et de M. Hyde. Paris: Albums Nathan. ISBN: 209210097-1 [“A free
adaptation of the text, with superb, eerie illustrations” (Jean-Pierre
Naugrette). The text is a rewriting, not without art,
that smoothes out the roughness of Stevenson’s text and makes it more of a
classic detective story, underlining the suspense and adding those small
details, observations of behaviour and touches of ‘atmosphere’ that
contribute to the attractions of the genre.]

2001

D’Ardesio, Fernando (2001). Double Folly.
Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde. London: Minerva Press.[Not a retelling of JH: a postmodern narrative about
a professional man in his fifties who has an affair with Myra, who turns out
to be deceptive and degrading, but with whom the narrator becomes nevertheless
obsessed, though this leads to being ostracised by society. There appear to
be no characters with the name Jekyll or Hyde and the narrative does not
mirror that of Stevenson’s. The title would seem to seem to be only one of
the many intertextual references of the text.]

2002

Jerry Kramsky [Fabrizio Ostani]
(script), Lorenzo Mattotti (art);(2002). Dr Jekyll et Mr Hyde. Paris : Casterman. ISBN 2203389885 /
Torino: Einaudi / Amsterdam: Oog & Blik.[a free reworking of the story as a ‘graphic novel’
(starting with the trampling episode, it then moves to ‘the last night’ and
then basically Jekyll’s ‘full statement’), with additional acts of sadism –
but all very stylised and suggested rather than shown. The colours and tones
have an almost musical sequencing about them. One interesting sequence on p.
10-11 is where Utterson, seated and talking with Poole, becomes Jekyll and
begins the main ‘full statement’. The (originally Italian) text makes much
use of Stevenson’s words, together with additional words and episodes, which
however are all interesting re-elaborations and interpretations. There are
female characters, but no fiancée and postponed marriage (as in Sullivan and
various film versions); Jekyll is a rather ill-looking man of late middle age
(often associated with a pale green colour).]

[A narrative sharing affinities
with Calvino, Borges and the graphic work of Escher, which borrows and
elaborates themes and phrases from numerous sources including Stevenson’s Jekyll
and Hyde.]

2003

Pettus,
Jason (2003). The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Reimagined for
Modern Times. E-book at http://www.jasonpettus.com/ebooks/jekyll.htm.
[A rewriting (often paragraph-for-paragraph,
dialogue-line by dialogue-line) with a modern N. American setting and in
contemporary language; ‘Victorian-age London has been turned into a sleepy
midwestern college town; Dr. Jekyll has become an obsessive medical student,
kicked out of his university labs because of his toxic experiments in
anti-psychotic medication; Mr. Hyde, a rave kid gone horribly, horribly
wrong. Utterson, the main narrator of the original story, has become a
jogging-obsessed tight-lipped law student in my version of the story; and
Poole, Jekyll’s butler in the original version, retains his "comic relief"
duties but is now Jekyll’s surfer pothead roommate’ (Jason Pettus)]

]A jocular ‘sexy story’ (in a schoolboy-student
style): female doctor mixes and tests a new perfume on herself, undergoes a
transformation and becomes super-sexy… (The ‘Mrs. R.’ has no correspondence
in the text—it acts merely as an allusion in the title to ‘Dr Jekyll…Mr.
Hyde’.) ]

[A
meta-literary fantasy, following Le crime étrange de Mr Hyde (1998)
and Les hommes de cire (2002). Hyde is the first-person narrator of
three of the chapters and we learn that Sherlock Holmes went to school with
the future Dr Jekyll. Other allusions and imitations come from Wilde,
Hitchcock, and Borges within the framework of a detective story constantly
undermined by fantasy and metatextual playfulness. Houses are fantastic
labyrinths that not only contain symmetrical structures but are doubled by
elaborate doll’s houses (which one of the characters collects); similarly,
the characters (as in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) are frequently doubled by
others yet also equivalents of each other.]

[A meta-literary fantasy, following Le crime étrange de Mr Hyde (1998)
and Les hommes de cire (2002). Hyde is the first-person narrator of
three of the chapters and we learn that Sherlock Holmes went to school with
the future Dr Jekyll. Other allusions and imitations come from Wilde,
Hitchcock, and Borges within the framework of a detective story constantly
undermined by fantasy and metatextual playfulness. Houses are fantastic
labyrinths that not only contain symmetrical structures but are doubled by
elaborate doll’s houses (which one of the characters collects); similarly,
the characters (as in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) are frequently doubled by
others yet also equivalents of each other.]

[Protagonist-takes-potion-and-is-sexually-released story with little or no other connection with Stevenson’s story.
In the tradition of ‘The Hulk’ and of Hyde in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the mutant form is larger than the original
(in this case, an eight-foot drag queen). If you like this sort of thing, then this is the sort of thing that you will like…]

2012

Keller, M. Elias (2012). Strange Case of Mr. Bodkin and Father Whitechapel. ISBN:
978-0-615-67024-9. Available in various formats through the principle on-line bookstores.

[ʻWhatʼs intriguing about Jekyll & Hyde is that Stevenson clearly states that the drug itself
is neither diabolical nor divine,ʼ Keller says. ʻIt simply brings forth the repressed side of
oneʼs personality: fiend or angel. So I wondered what would happen if a wealthy but
conflicted businessman took the potion and became the living, giving saint heʼs always
longed to be?ʼ (from the authorʼs on-line presentation).
Transforming oneself into a saint clearly has its unexpected side, as is suggested by
the fact that this version of the JH story belongs to those that bring in the Ripper
murders. Keller explains that first he wrote a kind of mirror-image of JH and then did
research into Victorian London and wrote this more independent version.]

2014

Daniel Levine (2014). Hyde. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

[Levine starts almost at the end of Stevenson’s text, as Hyde picks up the pen put down by Jekyll and goes back over events from a different perspective, filling in information and motivations.]

[A historical fiction/horror mash-up, in which chapters alternate
between letters and a journal by RLS with the narrative of
environmental scientist Rafe Salazar who finds an old steamer
trunk containing the journal and... a mysterious flask containing
the last drops of Jekyllʼs potion. Stevensonʼs story takes him to
the London for the stage version of Dr Jekyll at the same time
as the Ripper murders. The relevance of the present-day action
isnʼt immediately clear, but eventually arrives.
First sentences: ʼ26 November 1894. Dear Henley—What I
must tell you now, I tell you with dread. It has happened again.
What we thought—what we prayed—we had left behind us in
the back alleys and darkened doorways of Whitechapel has, I
fear, awakened from its awful slumberʼ.]

Quiller Couch, A. T. (1907). Poison Island. London/NY: George Bell/Scribner’s. ["A
Treasure Island story on the Stevensonian plan with some characters after Dickens,
opening in Cornwall, with echoes of the Peninsular war and of Napoleon’s
captivity in Elba, and the more tangible allusion of the arrival at Falmouth
of a big batch of returned prisoners. In the process of a voyage to the
island we also hear of the American War of 1812, which was still causing
trouble to shipping. 1813-1814." Ernest A. Baker, A Guide to
Historical Fiction (London, 1914). There’s a map, a dangerous character
also in search of the treasure and an ex-companion, the group who decide to
go to find the treasure; the island however turns out to be inhabited by
character very reminiscent of Attwater in The Ebb-Tide]

1924

Smith, Arthur D[ouglas] Howden (1924). Porto
Bello Gold. New York:
Grosset & Dunlap (republished 1999 as Porto Bello Gold: A Prequel to
Treasure Island. Ithaca, NY: McBooks Press (Classics of Nautical
Fiction). [The
young hero Master Robert is shanghaied by his great Uncle, the infamous
pirate Murry, and along with his faithful friend Peter, are embroiled in a
plot to capture a Spanish treasure ship (along with Flint, Darby, Ben Gunn,
and Long John Silver ) and use the proceeds to finance the return of King
James and Bonny Prince Charlie to power in England. The treasure is buried on
Dead Man’s Chest]

Calahan, Harold Augustin (1935). Back to Treasure Island. New York: Vanguard Press. With ten full-page b&w illustrations by L.F. Grant.[The first direct sequel to Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins and the others return to the island for the bar silver that had been buried separately. Calahan (1889-1965), author of several books on sailing, argues that Stevenson deliberately left details unresilved because he intended to write a sequel.]

1956

R.F. Delderfield (1956). The Adventures of Benn Gunn. London: Hodder & Stoughton. Numerous b&w drawings, several full-page, by William Stobbs.[Apparently written in response to the author’s children pestering him with questions as he read the classic out to them: how did Long John Silver lose his leg, how did Pew lose his eyesight? etc.
‘‘It was thoughts like these that prompted... R.F. Delderfield to sit down and do what no other writer has attempted to do - to write a supplement to Stevenson’s Treasure Island.
There have been many sequels and film aftermaths but never a preliminary volume, and never, perhaps, a deeper or more thorough analysis of the desperate men who bluster their way
through the pages of the world’s most famous adventure story.’’ (from the blurb).]

[The
New England brig Jane stops at an island to repair storm damage. The island
turns out to be Treasure Island, and they find Long John Silver, who has
found Captain Flint’s buried treasure. Mutiny and murder follow. By the
author of The Mouse that Roared.]

1977

Judd, Denis (1977). The Adventures of Long
John Silver. London: Michael Joseph.

[A dying John Silver finds an adult Jim Hawkins, and tells the good doctor of his exploits prior to the events in Treasure Island]

1978

Judd, Denis (1978). Return to
Treasure Island. London: Michael Joseph. [Sequel in which Dr. Jim Hawkins writes of a reunion
with Silver who then tells of his tireless quest to recover the remaining
treasure from Treasure Island]

1994

Scott, Justin (1994). Treasure
Island: A Modern Novel. New York: A Wyatt Book for St. Martin’s Press. [Set
in 1950s Long Island, this retelling of Stevenson’s story retains the names
of most of the characters (though Squire Trelawney becomes Senator Trelawney)
and appropriates chapter titles ("The Captain’s Papers,"
"Israel Hands") or works variations on them ("I Go to New
York," "Shotguns and Hand Grenades"). In Scott’s updated
version, the Hispaniola is bound for an island where a fortune in Nazi gold
is hidden.]

1995

Larsson, Björn (1995). Long
John Silver. Stockholm: Norstedts. French transl. by Philippe Bouquet
(1998). Paris: Grasset. English transl. by Tom Geddes (1999): Long John
Silver. The true and eventful history of my life of liberty and adventure as
a gentleman of fortune and enemy to mankind. London: Harvill.
[Silver’s autobiography: his version of his adventures, an extreme
individualist’s views on human existence, and a series of evocations of
Stevenson’s novel which call into question the division between truth and
fiction]

1996

Acker, Kathy (200*). Pussy,
King of the Pirates. New York: Grove Press 1996.

[A
loose and transgressive reworking of Treasure Island spanning
centuries and continents, this work chronicles the adventures of O and Ange,
prostitutes who retire from the trade and hire “King” Pussy and a band of
girl-pirates to help them find buried treasure.Heavily
influenced by pulp fiction, social satire, religious allegory, and picaresque
novels it has been seen as ‘a brilliant,
hilarious, electrifying and pornographic deconstruction of history and
language’ in which ‘every word, sentence and image has a literal,
metaphorical and referential meaning and fluctuates between them.’ (Patricia
Seaman in Eye Weekly) and also as a load of rubbish.: ‘There’s something to offend
everybody here!’ (Brian Bouldrey in The Guardian Lit.). There is also a CD of readings with the title Pussy, an
illustrated small press edition of excerpts called Pussycat Fever, and a CD
with the same title as the main text, on which the author sings to the music
of The Mekons.]

Milligan, Spike (2000). Treasure
Island According to Spike Milligan. London: Virgin Books; ISBN:
1852278951 (hb) , ISBN: 0753505037 (pb). [The retelling follows the original chapter by
chapter with changes in a spirit of anarchic playfulness and irreverence
(metaphors taken literally, polysemous words taken the wrong way, understood
meaning deliberately misunderstood). The oaths that Stevenson omitted from
the pirates’ language are put in and the parrot says not only ‘Pieces of Eight’
but also ‘Fuck off all of you’ (the sort of thing you would expect a pirate
to teach a parrot). The same word is used, appropriately, as a brief
imprecation when the pirates realize the treasure has already been lifted,
and again by the three marooned pirates as part of a defiant farewell to
Silver. If you like this sort of thing, then this is the sort of thing that
you like (and vice versa).]

2001

Bryan, Francis (2001), ill. Peter Bailey. Jim Hawkins and
the Curse of Treasure Island. London: Orion. ISBN: 1 84255 076 4
[Jim
Hawkins returns to the island to retrieve the rest of the treasure left
behind. ‘Many of Robert Louis Stevenson’s characters and settings return -
the good ship Hispaniola, the dedoubtable Squire Trelawney and the
shipwrecked goat-herd Benjamin Gunn’ also Long John Silver (now a
millionaire) and ‘Captain Flint’. ‘Bryan’s pleasure at resuscitating
Stevenson’s creations is obvious. His prose is a competent imitation of the
original, and he skillfully steers hsi plot the right side of parody’ (Jon
Barnes, TLS, 16.11.01). The book also contains a treasure hunt competition
solved by following clues in the book (prize: £5000 of antique gold).]

2002

Tartt, Donna (2002). The Little
Friend. ?New York: Knopf. [cf.Leader, Zachary (2002). ‘A
Mississippi Mowgli. Donna Tartt’s debt to Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Kipling and
Mark Twain’. TLS 1 November 2002: 25. Treasure Island is the main
model for Donna Tartt’s second novel: a quest with an anticlimactic end, with
a resourceful 12-year-old protagonist (who at the end dreams of the Hispaniola)
and a threatening but attractive Silver-figure (Farish).]

2006

Simon Bent (2006). Under the
Black Flag (subtitled: The early life, adventures and pyracies of the Famous
Long John Silver before he lost his leg). Performed at The Globe Theatre,
London, summer 2006, dir. Roxana Silbert.

[John Silver (Cal MacAninch), unfortunate enough to earn the disfavour
of Cromwell, is press-ganged away from his wife and daughter, for a life in
the colonies, where he is later captured by pirates. We learn why he is
called ‘Long’, how he lost a leg, and we get background to Billy Bones and
One-eyed (later, Blind) Pew. We don’t learn, however, how the treasure got to
Treasure Island.]

2007

Bertho, Pascal (script) et Tim
McBurnie (art) (2007). Sept Pirates. Paris : Delcourt[Comicbook. Some years have passed, the treasure has
mostly been spent and the ‘gentlemen’ are not doing particularly well; Jim
and the others are given the offer (made anonymously through a lawyer) to
search for the treasure still remaining on the island.]

2007

Dorison, Xavier (script) & Mathieu
Lauffray (art) (2007). Long John Silver. Paris: Dargaud. [Comicbook. The first of four volumes. Silver
(apparently the only character from Stevenson’s story) is a picaresque hero
in a new search for treasure. This first volume has been much praised n BD
sites.]

2008

Prather, Robert A. (2007). The Strange Case of Jonathan Swift and the Real Long John Silver. Morley, Missouri: Acclaim Press

[Suggests that the buried treasure in TrIs is based on a legendary silver mine in Kentucky, possibly on the Hardin-Breckinridge county line.
The reasoning goes like this: (i) A real-life Virginia merchant, Jonathan Swift, with mining and pirate connections in his family, owned local
property; (ii) there is also a Jonathan Swift of legend, who, after discovering a big silver lode, went nearly bind and couldn’t find it again;
(iii) it’s possible that using the Swift legend, based on the real Swift, Stevenson created Long John Silver and his lost treasure (the mine);
(iv) John Silver and Jonathan Swift share the same initials (well…, that proves it). An interesting example of how people convince themselves of
theories based on chance coincidences and improbable possibilities.]

2008

Edward Chupack (2008). Silver:
My Own Tale as Written by Me With a Goodly Amount of Murder. New York:
Thomas Dunne. $23.95. 978-0312373658

[Silver steals part of the recovered treasure from the homeward bound
Hispaniola, and disappears. A sequel to Treasure Island in the form of
Silver’s autobiography, written while locked in a cabin on his own ship and
suffering from fever. But the old rogue has a few tricks left in him. Silver
is ‘a quick learner and a hard worker, he’s instantly good with a sword, he’s
funny and he’s smarter than those around him. But he has a flaw, which is he
tends to kill everybody’.]

2008

John Drake (2008). Flint & Silver. New York/London: HarperCollins.

[
From the publisher’s presentation: ‘Pirates of the Carribean meets Flashman in this rip-roaring, hugely entertaining prequel to Treasure Island.
John Silver had never killed a man. Until now, charisma, sheer size and, when all else failed, a powerful pair of fists, had been enough to see
off his enemies. But on a smouldering deck off the coast of Madagascar, his shipmates dead or dying all around him, his cutlass has just claimed
the lives of six pirates. With their comrades intent on revenge, Silver's promising career in the merchant navy looks set to come to an end! until
the pirate captain makes him an offer he can't refuse. On the other side of the world Joseph Flint, a naval officer wronged by his superiors, plots
a bloody mutiny. Strikingly handsome, brilliant, but prey to sadistic tendencies, the path Flint has chosen will ultimately lead him to Silver.
ogether these gentlemen of fortune forge a deadly and unstoppable partnership, steering a course through treachery and betrayal and amassing a vast
fortune. But the arrival of Selina, a beautiful runaway slave with a murderous past, triggers sexual jealousy that will turn the best of friends into sworn enemies !’ ]

2009

John Drake (2009). Pieces of Eight. New York/London: HarperCollins.

[Further adventures. Will be continued in a third book when Silver gets involved in the American War of Independence ]

[This sequel by former poet-laureate gained positive and enthusiastic
reviews from the Observer (24 Mar), Guardian (30 Mar) Montreal Gazette (11 Aug), New
York Times (23 Aug) and more nuanced appreciation from the Telegraph (5 Apr) and
Independent (23 March). All praise the prose style and especially the scenes set in the
Thames Estuary in the first part of the book.]

Andrew Motion (2014). The New World. London: Jonathan Cape.[Continues where Motion’s Silver (2012), his first sequel to Treasure Island, left off. Jim and Natty, only survivors of the wreck, are immediately captured by Native Americans. During their long journey through American landscapes, they encounter three different tribes: one savage, one spiritual, one tragic.]

Taylor, W. Thomas (1989). Plain John Wiltshire on the Situation. Midland
Tex.: French Pub. Corp.. [Spine title: Plain John Wiltshire. "This first
edition is limited to two hundred twenty-seven copies,numbered 1-201 for sale,
and lettered A-Z for the private use of the publisher. Each copy has been
signed by the editor"--Verso of t.p. Bibliography: p. 33-35.]

Munro, D. J. (2015). Slave to Fortune. Amazon Digital Services.[Dominic Munro’s historical novel uses elements of Kidnapped to create a wide-ranging adventure, in this case starting from seventeenth-century England.
First two sentences: ‘I was asleep when they came; we all were. They came in the dead of night.’]

Munro, Neil (1914). The New Road. Edinburgh: Blackwood.[Not a retelling or sequel but a novel showing narrative inspiration from both Kidnapped and The Master of Ballantrae. The central characters of Aeneas Macmaster and Ninian Macgregor Campbell have clear affinities with Alan Breck Stewart and Davie Balfour from Stevenson’s Kidnapped. And as Aeneas and Ninian can be seen as one divided character (related to wider Scottish divisions), we can also see an inspiration from James and Henry Durie in The Master of Ballantrae.]